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By Seth Mason

Think about the things you do in your life and the doors that are constantly open for you. I have had many doors opened and closed in my life and it wasn’t because I waited for them to present themselves. Everyday in grade school I would sit in my desk fresh after the bell and listen to the morning announcements. The secretary gave the school agenda and it was a dread to hear her voice every day. We did the pledge together as a school and she would continue to speak in her monotone voice that was magic in the sense that it was able to draw slobber from the inside of each students mouth. I asked myself one day why can’t we have someone else say it or even have a friend on the tube that I would enjoy hearing.
 

Years later I would listen to the announcements on the intercom in a more friendly voice, a common voice that everyone knew because it was one they heard in the classroom while they were learning math or English. This was a voice among the students. I began to change the school at the mercy of my imagination. I walked into a student council meeting and began to ask questions. I walked into school board meetings and asked questions. In the lunch line I asked questions about what we were eating. And when you ask questions some one has an answer. I took it upon myself to make changes and ask questions that people weren’t asking, this made me a better person and opened all the doors I was talking about.

Why don’t you as a person ask aloud the questions that you have in the back of your mind. No harm comes from a question but instead innovation. Many people have many ideas and with the world we live in there is no reason not to find an answer. Next time you want to do something open your mouth, raise your hand, step out of line, and get something done.